Valuable Language Resources and Applications Supporting the Use of Basque
نویسندگان
چکیده
We present some Language Technology applications and resources that have proven to be valuable tools to promote the use of Basque, a low density language. We also present the strategy we have followed for almost twenty years to develop those tools and derived applications as the top of an integrated environment of language resources, language tools and other applications. In our opinion, if Basque is now in a quite good position in Language Technology is because those guidelines have been followed.
منابع مشابه
Strategies for sustainable MT for Basque: incremental design, reusability, standardization and open-source
We present some Language Technology applications that have proven to be effective tools to promote the use of Basque, a European less privileged language. We also present the strategy we have followed for almost twenty years to develop those applications as the top of an integrated environment of language resources, language foundations, language tools and other applications. When we have faced...
متن کاملMove-based investigation of appraisal in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles: Similarities and differences between L1 and L2 English texts
Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...
متن کاملSNOMED CT in a language isolate: an algorithm for a semiautomatic translation
BACKGROUND The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine--Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is officially released in English and Spanish. In the Basque Autonomous Community two languages, Spanish and Basque, are official. The first attempt to semi-automatically translate the SNOMED CT terminology content to Basque, a less resourced language is presented in this paper. METHODS A translation algorithm th...
متن کاملQuizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another
It is difficult to develop and deploy Language Technology and applications for minority languages for many reasons. These include the lack of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources for the language, a scarcity of NLP researchers who speak the language and the communication gap between teachers in the classroom and researchers working in universities and other centres of research. One appro...
متن کاملMedical Students’ Perception of Using Electronic Learning Tools in an ESP Program
Given the burgeoning interest in the use of technology and electronic tools for educational purposes among students, this study set out with the purpose of investigating medical students’ perception of using e-learning tools and applications in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program at an Iranian medical university. The study also aimed to discover the extent to which the students...
متن کامل